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Ok got it, let me check

First, you need to check your robot.txt and your htaccess file, then check the plugins on your site to see if there is a plugin creating the redirections

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Hi

Seen your case looks like you have big issue, with your site structure and also with your canonical tags I mean if you have

• Home > Bigbag Sandpit sand type xyz
• Home > Sand > Sandpit sand > Bigbag Sandpit sand type xyz

Then you have 2 pages competing for the same keywords usually will ignore both of them

So first need to know to define the source of the problem, in my experience, this usually occurs when you don't set up correctly the parent and child pages, also you will need to check your site taxonomy ( trust me on e-commerce is even more crucial than link building) a bad taxonomy can ruin all your efforts, also depending on the size of your site can require a lot of time.

The best tool in my opinion (experience) to fix the error Screamingfrog, Semrush and Dynomapper ( this one is almost mandatory)

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Completly agree

If you have different content/pages oriented for different regions, yes you need to implement

In Summary. I prefer to work on the site structure first, probably because is one my main skills and I have been investing a lot of time and money on that. Donna Duncan suggests you make https migration first, mainly because is a less complicated process and she is right. Anyway, the main idea behind is the same. The best way to perform the project is one step at a time.

KISS "Keep it simple, stupid"

can you explain better your answer please in order to give a better help, please

You just need to disavow them on Search Console

Mobile-first indexing means Google will predominantly use the mobile version of the content for indexing and ranking. Historically, the index primarily used the desktop version of a page's content when evaluating the relevance of a page to a user's query. Since the majority of users now access Google via a mobile device, the index will primarily use the mobile version of a page's content going forward. We aren't creating a separate mobile-first index. We continue to use only one index.

With mobile-first indexing, Googlebot primarily crawls and indexes pages with the smartphone agent. We will continue to show the URL that is the most appropriate to users (whether it's a desktop or mobile URL) in Search results.

if your site has separate desktop and mobile content, which means you have a dynamic serving or separate URLs (or m-dot) site, make sure you follow the best practices below to prepare for mobile-first indexing:

• Your mobile site should contain the same content as your desktop site. If your mobile site has less content than your desktop site, you should consider updating your mobile site so that its primary content is equivalent with your desktop site. This includes text, images (with alt-attributes), and videos in the usual crawlable and indexable formats.
• Structured data should be present on both versions of your site. Make sure URLs in the structured data on the mobile versions are updated to the mobile URLs. If you use Data Highlighter to provide structured data, regularly check the Data Highlighter dashboard for extraction errors.
• Metadata should be present on both versions of the site. Make sure that titles and meta descriptions are equivalent across both versions of your site.

So in your case, you are trying to keep the paradigm of the desktop first cutting the content for mobile. Probably you are trying to fit a desktop site into a mobile and that's probably your main error. I had the same issue in the past. So the best way to deal with that is very simple, literally, you need to starts with a blank paper to design your site starting for the mobile version. And that means images, content, graphics, call to actions and so on

As I see you have some really good links but most important you have really good anchor text

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One of those anchor text is your Headline / Title which according to Adam White is the most valuable backlink type

If you want to understand how important are the anchor texts on your backlinks please read this articles The Single Best Anchor Text for SEO That No One Is Talking About

Firsts your need to keep in mind that Google and Bing use a different algorithm and that means they use different evaluation methods to try to get the best results.

I have been checking your site, based on my experience one of the accurate ways to measure the performance of a site is by checking the Trust flow  (basically measure how many of the sites on your neighborhood are pointing to your site)  so matter how many links you have or the DA what matters is how many of them belong to your niche.

• MOZ  - DA -17
• Ahrefs - UR 25
• Ahrefs  ----- DR 2.1
• Majestic --- TF 1

As you will notice your domain rating and trust flow are too low. So basically you have links pointing to your site but they are not passing any value. So I will suggest you to start to work on building a link profile

Regards

Well, if those pages do not have any value your best choice is add the no-index tag, I mean if they don't answer any question and aren't useful they will consume your crawl budget. Thin content can be identified as low-quality pages that add little to no value to the reader. Examples of thin content include duplicate pages, automatically generated content or doorway pages.

Google tries to provide the best results that match the search intent of the user. If you want to rank high, you have to convince Google that you’re answering the question of the user. This isn’t possible if you’re not willing to write extensively on the topic you like to rank for. Thin content rarely qualifies for Google as the best result. As a minimum, Google has to know what your page is about to know if it should display your result to the user. So try to write enjoyable, informative copy, to make Google, but first an foremost, your users happy.

How to Determine if a Page is "Low Quality"
https://moz.com/blog/low-quality-pages

What is Thin Content and Why is it Bad for SEO?
https://www.custard.co.uk/thin-content/

How to Turn Low-Value Content Into Neatly
https://moz.com/blog/low-value-content-next-level

Now is a good idea to familiarize yourself with Google’s Quality Guidelines. Think long and hard about whether you may be doing this, intentionally or accidentally.

You’re probably not straight-up spamming people, but you could do better.
the golden rule to identify if your page needs the no- index tag or not, is very simple
“Does this add value for your visitors?” Well, does it?

Also, check what Google says about it** "Thin content with little or no added value"**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3-obcXkyA4

IN SUMMARY, Adding the no-index tag to unuseful pages will not hurt your site

Hope this info helps you with your question.

 

Even Screaming-frog have problems to find all the orphan-pages, I use Screaming-frog, Moz, Semrush, Ahrefs, and Raven-tools in my day to day and honestly, Semrush is the one that gives me better results for that specific tasks. As an experience, I can say that a few months ago I took a website and it was a complete disaster, no sitemap, no canonical tags, no meta-tags and etc.

I run screaming-frog and showed me just 200 pages but I knew it was too much more at the end I founded 5k pages with Semrush, probably even the crawler of screaming frog has problems with that website so I commenting that as an experience.

In that case, you can create some rules in your robot.txt file. All depends on the configuration of your site. Also, you need to check on your search console and your crawl budget.

As I mentioned all depends on your site. If you deal with 10 new users per day, just take it easy, config your robot.txt file in the other hand if you deal with 1000 or 10000 users, in that case, you will need to think in a better solution.

The first idea that comes to my mind is to create a script on javascript who evaluate some parameters on those pages and if meet the parameters (do not add the tag) if not **(add the tag) **

I would not worry about it, as long you made the right set it fo

• The canonical tags
• The language and region tags
• You submitted the sitemaps for every single region on Search Console
• Another good point to keep in mind is  adding schemas to your pages

Hi Cristiana

Answering your question, I will say that canonical-tag to a site is not an option is a requirement, almost mandatory requirement. The canonical tag is directly related to the duplicated content issues.

From a technical standpoint, you'll need to understand how duplicate content can unintentionally be added to a site. Many times, it's simply a canonicalization issue. For example, homepage canonicalization causes most duplicate content issues on sites.

For example, search crawlers might be able to reach your homepage in all of the following ways:

• https:yoursite.com

• https:www.yoursite.com

• http:yoursite.com

• http:www.yoursite.com

• http://example.com/index.php

Just to give you an example on Google Search Console you need to verify these versions of a single domain for single property

• http:www.yoursite.com

• https:www.yoursite.com

• http:yoursite.com

• https:yoursite.com

Google will see each URL as a different page – and it won't know which one you prefer to send users to. The problem can get exponentially worse if it exists on every page on your site.

The easiest way to solve the problem is with a server-side redirect that sets one of those URLs as the “official” version of the page, and only serves that version, regardless of which URL was the destination.

You can also use the rel canonical tag – it's a directive that's inserted in the header of the page. It looks like this: rel='canonical'

When you're starting SEO on a new site, you'll want to check out all of the canonicalization that's been declared, so that you have a solid understanding of what's going on with the site content.

I have been worked on multilingual website Spanish/English for a long time ago. So I will strongly to create the sitemaps for each language and location, upload them to GSC and Bing, remember to check the canonical tags (if you can add schemas even better)  also, is very important to keep in mind optimize titles and meta-tags (in some cases can create some issues) to make it easier for the USERS to recognize each version Title Main Keyword - US

Your subdomains will be treated as entirely separate websites in the eyes of Google, as Matt Cutts explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MswMYk05tk

In simple words, if you have

• https://mywebsite.com
• https://blog.mywebsite.com

These are 2 different sites or properties according to Google, so in your case, you can move, migrate or update your subdomain and this will not affect the parent domain.

Regards

As I see you are using the Google Translate API, so in that case, keep in mind the on-page for every single language